“Defining Moments” by the Kortney Rose Foundation
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Each month, the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium highlights the stories and contributions of families, foundations, and researchers to find cures for pediatric brain tumors. If you would like to share your story as a guest blogger, please email moulderr@email.chop.edu. By Kristen Gillette, Founder/Executive Director of The Kortney Rose Foundation I’ve had many defining moments…
“He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” Featuring Mike Garson & Gaby Moreno
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David Bowie piano man Mike Garson, along with Gaby Moreno, recorded this cover of He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother to show their support for the data-sharing initiatives and research of the CBTTC which is taking place at each of the CBTTC’s 15 member institutions around the world. The CBTTC is providing families of brain tumor patients…
“What No Parent Should Ever Have to Hear”
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Each month, the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium highlights the stories and contributions of families, foundations, and researchers to find cures for pediatric brain tumors. If you would like to share your story as a guest blogger, please email moulderr@email.chop.edu. By Mary Brandle, Christopher Brandle Joy of Life Foundation As a parent, hearing the…
Kids First Data Resource Center Aims to Explain Links between Childhood Cancers and Birth Defects
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Adam Resnick, PhD, CBTTC Scientific Co-Chair and Director of the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was featured in ClinicalOmics to discuss the launch of the Kids First Data Resource Center, a new collaborative effort to study the genetic links between pediatric cancer and structural birth defects. As one…
Making an Impact in Brain Tumor Research by the Lilabean Foundation
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Each month, the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium’s lab chat highlights the stories and contributions of families, foundations, and researchers to find cures for pediatric brain tumors. If you would like to share your story as a guest blogger, please email moulderr@email.chop.edu. By Nicole Giroux, The Lilabean Foundation for Pediatric Brain Cancer Research As a…
“What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say” by the Swifty Foundation
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Each month, the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium’s lab chat will highlight the stories and contributions of families, foundations, and researchers to find cures for pediatric brain tumors. If you would like to share your story as a guest blogger, please email moulderr@email.chop.edu. By Patti Gustafson, Swifty Foundation Wonder what to say to a…
David Bowie’s Piano Man Concert Benefits CBTTC Researchers
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Please enjoy this glimpse at the Collaborate for Cures concert which took place in Los Angeles on May 20, 2017. The CBTTC would like to thank Candy Hammeras and the Hammeras Group for organizing such an inspiring evening, entirely dedicated to the consortium and focusing on the importance of collaborative data sharing in medical research. We…
CAVATICA Announced as Finalist in 2017 Bio-IT World Best of Show Awards
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CAVATICA, the cloud-based platform created by the CBTTC for collaboratively accessing, sharing and analyzing pediatric cancer data CAVATICA, is a finalist in this year’s Bio-IT World Best of Show Awards, and is a contender for the People’s Choice Award. To read the entire article, please click HERE Spinning a Web Seven Bridges has been applying…
CBTTC Informatician Wins 2017 iFellows Doctoral Award
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Alex Felmeister, MS, a CBTTC bioinformatician and PhD student in the Information Studies program at Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), recently received the 2017 iFellows Doctoral Fellowship award for his thesis tentatively titled “Advancing collaborative pediatric brain tumor research through temporally based predictive modeling of a large scale national clinical data research network”…
Dr. Resnick CBITT Speaker May 10th Webex
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Dr. Resnick will be giving a presentation at the National Cancer Institute. Webex information: Starts at 11 May 10, Adam Resnick, Innovation Through Collaboration: New Models Emerging in Pediatrics for an Integrated Data-driven Healthcare Ecosystem Speaker: Adam Resnick, Ph.D. Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Time: 11 AM – 12 PM ET WebEx: https://cbiit.webex.com/cbiit/onstage/g.php… Event Number:…